OoO En cette matinée pluvieuse du samedi 15 novembre 2008, vers 10:16,
Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> disait :
>> On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with
>> underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never
>> seen this, even for packages that comes from OpenBSD (like openntpd
>> which uses "ntpd"). Is there some drawbacks with underscore?
> This has been discussed a couple of times, but IIRC without definitive
> conclusion. "Debian-" and "debian-" seem to be as prefixes as well.
> Maybe it is easiest to just go with something that is popular among
> existing packages you care about.
On systems that I have access to, there is Debian-exim and no user
starting with underscore. However, I have a lot of system users without
special prefixes. Do you have some popular packages with a system user
starting with "debian-" in mind?
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